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- Jean Ritchie was born on December 8, 1922 in Viper, Kentucky, USA. She was an actress, known for Next of Kin (1989), Camera Three (1954) and The Magic Fiddle (1991). She was married to George Pickow. She died on June 1, 2015 in Berea, Kentucky, USA.
- SpouseGeorge Pickow(September 23, 1950 - December 10, 2010) (his death, 2 children)
- She was an accomplished Appalachian Dulcimer in Kentucky and Brooklyn, New York.
- Mother of two sons, Jon Pickow of Viper, Kentucky and Peter Pickow; Sister-in-law of Lenette Pickow.
- Port Washington, Long Island, New York
- She was the youngest of 14 children in a farming family in the foothills of the Cumberlands.
- She earned a bachelor's degree in social work from the University of Kentucky in 1946. She moved to New York, where she worked at the Henry Street Settlement on the Lower East Side. She began performing at Greenwich Village coffeehouses. She came to the attention of folklorist Alan Lomax and Mitch Miller, each of whom arranged for her earliest recordings.
- I was asked to attend some parties and bring my dulcimer. That's how my so-called career got started.
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